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Rebecca

i am currently using outlook 2000 and was wondering how to
protect my inbox, as administrators can acces my mail box
if they wish. is there a way of protecting this???

thanks
 
No, you can't if they have access to the database. Why this mistrust in the
administrators? (I feel offended ;-)

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yeah just a bit!!!

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No, you can't if they have access to the database. Why this mistrust in the
administrators? (I feel offended ;-)

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Haha, well in that case it is better to talk to your superior and say that
you question the behaviour of the administrators. Let them check whether it
is still neccesary in your environment that the administrator can access
user's mailboxes. Perhaps it is a solution to let them create one admin
account who can view the database and put heavy auditing on this account.

Just for the record; I've only opened other user's mailboxes for
troubleshooting purposes like rules, permissions and people who say that
they get full inbox messages when the mailbox only contains like 6 messages
(which turned out to be 10MB each :-D). And then still when they only gave
me permissions to actualy connect to their mailbox.

To me being able to doesn't also mean being allowed to...
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Use EFS (encryption file system) in Windows 2000; I suspect it's there
for Windows XP, too. You can remove all groups and users (other than
yourself) from being able to read anything inside the EFS-protected
directory or file. You cannot keep an administrator from taking
ownership of the file but you can prevent them from actually reading
what is inside of it. I know that this can be done because I have shot
myself in the foot using EFS. I figured the Administrator's security
certificate would still be able to decipher my EFS-protected files, but
when I configured EFS to only allow my userid to decipher the files then
Administrator could only take ownership, I did a reinstall, didn't have
the security certificate for my old SID (security ID assigned to your
account), and couldn't open the files using the Administrator account.
Lost it all. I still use EFS but now I export the security certificates
onto a floppy that gets locked up.
 
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